By Ogar Monday/Grace Orok Traditional ruler in Yakurr and Obubra Local Government Areas have called on the State Government to permanently put an end to the lingering crisis between their border communities by properly and clearly demarcating the boundary between Oyadama and Inyima. The monarchs also insisted that it is the incessant crisis arising from
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The Cross River State House of Assembly Tuesday, passed into law the bill seeking to create the Cross River State Health Insurance Scheme Agency into law in its sitting. The bill sources say, will be tagged “AyadeCare”. When assented to by the Governor, the Agency empowered by the Act will manage
By Jonathan Ugbal The Director General of the Cross River State Border Commission, Honorable Etim Ayomobi has died aged 59 following a brief illness. CrossRiverWatch gathered from close family sources that Ayomobi died on Sunday with funeral plans yet to be known to the public. CrossRiverWatch also gathered that the late Ayomobi who attended the
By Jonathan Ugbal The Director General of the Cross River State Primary Health Care Development Agency (CRSPHCDA) Dr. Betta Edu says there is an urgent need to step up the fight against malnutrition because it affects the overall health of both the individual, the immediate community and the country at large. Edu made this known
By Bassey Inyang Four diesel fired electricity generating sets belonging to Mirage Hotels in Calabar, where the former Minister for Culture and Tourism, Chief Edem Duke, is the major shareholder, were carted away on Monday by Sypet Oil and Chemical Limited, following a judgment debt valued at N52 million. Counsel to Sypet Oil, Eric Utang, told
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Barrister Mary Ekpere, counsel to the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha Buhari has called the Minister for Niger Delta Affairs Pastor Usani Usani a blatant liar for claiming he influenced the appointment of Dr. Bassey Ejue as the Provost of the Federal College of Education, Obudu. Ekpere, the estranged wife to
By Jonathan Ugbal: Government House Correspondent Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has approved the recruitment of 1,000 Teachers into the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and about 41 more into the Cross River State Water Board Limited (CRSWBL). Governor Ayade had shortly after assumption of office lifted the over 2 decade’s embargo
By Jonathan Ugbal and Inyali Peter Residents of Ikot Anwatim community in Cross River’s capital city of Calabar have petitioned their village head, Ntufam Patrick Offiong to the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHEDC) calling on the distribution outfit to investigate the monarch who alongside his cronies, allegedly N10,000 from over 300 compounds amounting to